With the 2012 campaign season in full swing, Seven Days has teamed up with VTDigger.org to create a fact-checker feature to test the “truthiness” of claims made by the candidates who want your vote this November. This week’s Fact Checker was written by VTDigger’s Anne Galloway.

CLAIM: “Pete Shumlin’s Vermont: highest tax rate in the country.” 
— Television commercial for Republican gubernatorial candidate Randy Brock, titled “Who’s He Fooling?”

FACTS: The Vermont GOP has long contended that Democrats have made the Green Mountain State into a high-tax, antibusiness enclave. So it wasn’t surprising when Republican gubernatorial candidate Randy Brock claimed, in an attack ad against Gov. Peter Shumlin, that Vermont has the highest tax rate in the country. 

11 replies on “The Fact Checker: Does Vermont Have the Highest Tax Rate in the Country?”

  1. Thanks – When did Republicans decide that lying to win is OK? I know it has always been there and happens on all sides – but it seems endmic now in what has become the extreme right wing party. Too bad for us all.

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